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National Humanities Center offers free webinars for teachers for the 2025-2026 school year.

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Live, interactive webinars connect educators with scholars and experts in humanities fields to discuss compelling topics. Webinars are free but require registration.

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Resilient Educator: Teacher Wellness Strategies

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Resilient Educator: Teacher Wellness Strategies

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This collection of resources by Resilient Educator shares ways for educators to strive for healthy work-life balance and live happy and productive lives inside and outside of the classroom.

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Helpful Health and Rejuvenation Resources for Teachers' Wellbeing | Resilient Educator

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Teacher wellbeing is a crucial element of overall school health. Educators often experience significant amounts of pressure and stress, and don't have the proper tools or mindset to overcome these challenges. We have the right resources for educators to find that healthy work-life balance and live happy and productive lives inside and outside of the classroom.

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TED Talk: How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? 

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TED Talk: How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? 

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Teachers emotionally support our kids -- but who's supporting our teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" -- the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students' experiences -- and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.

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How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? | Sydney Jensen

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Infographic: How to Grow Teacher Wellbeing in Your Schools

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Infographic: How to Grow Teacher Wellbeing in Your Schools

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Book List: 5 Highly-Rated Self-Care Books for Educators

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Book List: 5 Highly-Rated Self-Care Books for Educators

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This book list by 7 Mindsets shares a collection of five highly-rated self-care books for teachers looking to focus on their own health and wellbeing.

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According to a 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey, more than 75 percent of teachers reported frequent job-related stress. Educators have always experienced stress in their profession, but the pandemic has been a significant factor in increased teacher stress. The survey also found that nearly one in four teachers were likely to leave their jobs in 2021, compared to one in six, on average, prior to the pandemic.

With so many educators feeling overwhelmed and overworked, it's important to find resources that can support self-care and cultivate wellbeing--both in school and at home. There are many great self-care books available to help guide educators to be courageous, take time for yourself, find happiness, and be more mindful. Because there are so many self-care books available for educators, we've created this list of some of the top-rated self-care books that teachers can benefit from reading.
Here are five highly-rated self-care books for educators to read this year:

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown (4.24 stars on Goodreads)

Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor who has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. In this book, she presents a powerful new vision that encourages readers to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, live wholeheartedly, and courageously engage in their lives.

Take Time for You: Self-Care Action Plans for Educators by Tina H. Boogren (4.08 stars on Goodreads)

In this book, Tina H. Boogren offers a range of manageable research-based strategies based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs that will guide educators to develop their own individualized self-care plan. Through mindfulness, reflection, and daily self-care activities, teachers can thrive in both their professional and personal lives.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace by Sharon Salzberg (4.03 stars on Goodreads)

A mindfulness expert and meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg shares valuable guidance in this book for cultivating mindfulness, compassion, and awareness at work. Helpful for anyone in any profession, this book is focused on improving the positives of working life while mitigating the negative feelings of stress, exhaustion, and feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated.

The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students by Daniel Rechtschaffen (4.02 stars on Goodreads)

Decades of research indicate the impressive benefits of mindfulness in social, emotional, and cognitive development. A practical guide for mindfulness in life and in school, this book invites educators to take advantage of this vital tool to cultivate attention, compassion, and wellbeing in students, as well as in themselves.

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris (3.91 stars on Goodreads)

Good for any adult struggling with happiness and fulfillment, this book follows author Dan Harris' adventure through spirituality, mindfulness, and self-help in order to find a way to be happier. 10% Happier takes readers from neuroscience to societal factors that affect happiness and presents a practical way to become happier that is truly achievable.

These are just a few of the best self-care books to help educators lead more mindful and fulfilling lives. Another way educators can improve their wellbeing is by cultivating the same social-emotional learning (SEL) skills that they teach to students. Decades of experience and research prove that SEL can be taught and modeled but must also be intentionally practiced. What makes 7 Mindsets different from other SEL providers is that it nurtures the mindsets of both students and educators. Choosing an SEL curriculum that supports educators and helps them grow socially and emotionally is one of the best steps to improving wellbeing of the school community.

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5 Highly-Rated Self-Care Books for Educators - 7 Mindsets

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With so many educators feeling overwhelmed and overworked, it's important to find resources that can support self-care and cultivate wellbeing--both in school and at home. There are many great self-care books available to help guide educators to be courageous, take time for yourself, find happiness, and be more mindful.

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Kevin Love Fund - Everyone is going through something that we can't see

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Resources for Teachers - Kevin Love Fund

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Resources and Helplines For Teachers and School Counselors As you begin teaching the curriculum, you may have additional questions about how you can best support your students.

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TED Talk: Learn to shine bright -- the importance of self-care for teachers. 

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TED Talk: Learn to shine bright -- the importance of self-care for teachers. 

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As human beings we must prioritise our own well-being and as teachers as well we can begin to place the same emphasis on staff well-being in our schools as we do for the mental health of the children we teach. Self-care starts with you and small acts every single day.

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Learn to shine bright- the importance of self care for teachers. | Kelly Hopkinson | TEDxNorwichED

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Blog: A Beginner's Guide to Teacher Advocacy

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Blog: A Beginner's Guide to Teacher Advocacy

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Beginner's Guide to Teacher Advocacy in Educational Policy

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Master teacher advocacy with this essential guide, featuring skills for effectively influencing education policy, overcoming challenges, and balancing advocacy with professional responsibilities to champion equitable education.

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Video: Teacher Leadership in Action: Leading in Advocacy

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Video: Teacher Leadership in Action: Leading in Advocacy

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Teacher leadership matters as we improve learning opportunities for our students. In this video you will see National Board Certified Teacher, Beth Maloney. Using her voice to advocate for the profession and students, Beth knows that strong working conditions create strong learning conditions.

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Teacher Leadership In Action: Leading in Advocacy

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Instructional Ideas: Integrating Well-Being in Your Classroom

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Instructional Ideas: Integrating Well-Being in Your Classroom

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Integrating Well-Being in Your Classroom: Easy and Quick Activities
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become." - Gautama Buddha
Warning: You are not being asked to do one more thing on top of your overflowing plates. What follows are resources for you to use at your own choosing and pace.

We recognize that instructional faculty and our students are living in a time when massive change and stress are at an all-time high. And in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education post, Aisha Ahmad provides a perspective on acceptance and reimagining ourselves during these times of uncertainty - an important reminder of doing what we need now to take care of ourselves for the short and long term.

The Center for the Advancement of Well-Being and the Office of Faculty Affairs & Development collaborated to create a list of short well-being activities instructional faculty can use in the classroom. You don't need to be an expert on the science and application of well-being to support your students. There's a growing body of research that provides evidence for many of these activities. Here are a few examples:
The Influence of Personal Well-Being on Learning Achievement in University Students Over Time: Mediating or Moderating Effects of Internal and External University Engagement Mindfulness for Teachers: A Pilot Study to Assess Effects on Stress, Burnout and Teaching Efficacy Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density
The following quick and simple activities can help you and your students get focused and centered. We call these "re-wiring activities" - rewiring your brain to optimize learning and engagement. Some instructors facilitate these activities at the beginning of each class session. After coming back from a break would be another good time to incorporate one of these activities. They can be as short as a quick one-word check-in that might take 5-7 minutes depending on class size. You can control the amount to time for each of these.

In our experience, students appreciate the time devoted to de-stressing and being able to get into the present moment. You can mix up and repeat any of these well-being practices. The key is to find the ones that work for you and your students. If you are holding online synchronous classes, you can use the chat feature, call on your students by name, or ask them to use the raise hand feature in your virtual classroom to offer their contributions and reflections.

COLLECTION OF BRIEF RE-WIRING PRACTICES

Breathing Exercises

These short, simple exercises will bring focus and calm to you and your students.
Acceptance Mantra with Breath
Take low and slow deep breaths while repeating the mantra. Change the words if they don't work. Practice for 2-5 minutes.

On the inhale: Breathing in, I do my best."

On the exhale: "Breathing out, I will let go of the rest."

Box Breathing
Try this deliberate breathing pattern for a few minutes at a time.

1. Slow inhale for 4 seconds

2. Hold breath gently for 4 seconds

3. Exhale slowly for 4 seconds

4. Hold breath gently for 4 seconds

5. Repeat for 2-3 minutes

Building a Sense of Self-Compassion
Directions: Close your eyes for a few seconds and take a deep breath.

Ask yourself what is present in your life right now. What is claiming your attention? It may be a concern regarding your finances, family... Whatever it is, just allow it to surface.

As whatever you are present to surfaces, mentally say:

May I find the strength and resources to navigate what is here now.

May I find acceptance for everything that is coming up for me [Accept that whatever reaction I am having to what is happening around me, it's okay. It's real!] May I find good and positive ways to work with these reactions

May I remember that I am not alone despite our physical distancing.

Take a deep breath and bring your attention back to the room.
To Extend Kindness to Others in the Class
Directions: Close your eyes for a few seconds and take a deep breath.

Think of someone else in this class that might benefit from some positive energy and encouragement. Silently, take a moment to identify that person and note for yourself why that person comes to mind. What's your relationship to that person? Why do you want to send them your positive energy? For the duration of the class, keep that person in mind. And continue to do so even beyond the class into the rest of your day. Take a deep breath and bring your attention back to the room.

These activities are used to bring our focus into the present moment.
Minute to Arrive
Use to bring more complete presence to the classroom. before starting class, when most are settled in, ask students to pause and take a quiet moment to fully arrive. This practice can also be used when coming back from breaks or to start meetings.
Sensing Things in the Moment Activity
Ask students to identify the things listed in the moment after each of the 5 prompts below. This is all about observing and being in the moment of the here and the now. The things you can feel can provide a great piece to return to later when you need to re-ground and re-center.

Prompts with Examples

5 things I can see from where I am right now: my camera, a sleeping dog, a glass of water, hand lotion, a box of Kleenex

4 things I can hear from where I am right now: the TV downstairs, a dog barking outside, birds chirping, a plane coming into land

3 things I can feel (physically) from where I am right now: flannel sheets, the leaves of the rabbit's foot fern, my soft shirt, my wrists

2 things I can smell from where I am right now: lavender lotion that just went on my hands, a scented candle burning

1 thing I can taste: the Trader Joe's chocolate meringues that I just ate (and might be addicted to!)
Three Breaths (Close Eyes)

1. Focus on Breath

2. Focus on relaxing body

3. Ask yourself what's important now (to focus on the present moment)

Journaling and Reflective Writing

A 2009 study of college students suggested that regular journaling improves mood and well-being. Give 2-10 minutes to journaling or reflective writing. You can also ask students to share responses if time allows.
Select a prompt or generate your own relevant prompts:

Write about your biggest accomplishment over the last week?

Reflect on things you are grateful for at this moment.

Name 5 people who have inspired you recently, and explain why.

Talk about an obstacle you overcame today.

Give an example of when you helped someone else achieve one of their goals.

Discuss a big decision that frightened you initially, but paid off in the end.

What would you like to learn more about? How will you go about doing this?

Describe the last time you felt the emotion of awe.

Daily Quarantine Questions
One or more of these questions can be used as reflective writing prompts.

What am I grateful for today?

Who am I checking in on or connecting with today?

What expectations of "normal" am I letting go of today?

How am I getting outside today?

How am I moving my body today?

What beauty am I either creating, cultivating, or inviting in today?

Two Good Things (or One Good Thing depending on the size of your classroom)

Ask students to take a moment to think about two good things in their lives at the present moment. You can ask them to write them down. Then ask them to share with the rest of the class.
Self-Care Reflection
To encourage self-care, ask people to simply identify one thing they will do for themselves before the end of the day to help them keep going. You can ask people to write that thing down to help remind them, as it might help to increase accountability. You can also ask everyone to share the one thing they will do, as it might provide inspiration to others. You can change this up as needed - one thing before the end of the day, one thing tomorrow before you start working, one thing before your day ends, etc.

Mindfulness and Meditation Exercises

These practices, similar to the breathing and centering exercises, will increase mindfulness, paying attention in the present moment, on purpose, and without judgment. These qualities can help with stress management, concentration, and emotional regulation, including improved ability to deal with negative feedback and challenging circumstances.
Head, Body, Heart Check-In
Use to bring a more mindful quality to responses when facing adversity.

1. Head - What are the thoughts here?

2. Body - What sensations do I notice? What emotions and intuitions do I sense and how is that informing me?

3. Heart - What values are at play here? What is my intention?

Meditation Recordings
Play these short meditations for your class:

Simply Pausing (2:30 minutes)

Focusing (3:20 minutes)

Focusing/Centering (3:29 minutes)

Mental Stillness (5 minutes)

Body Scan (2:44 minutes)
Loving-Kindness Meditation
The loving-kindness meditation is tied with self-compassion, empathy, understanding, and kindness. Ask students to be in a sitting position with feet on the floor and close their eyes if they're comfortable doing so. Ask that everyone not speak and for the room to be completely silent. Provide a few moments of silence for them to get centered before reading the following loving-kindness meditations. Read the following slowly:

For self:

1. May I be strong.

2. May I have the power to accept and forgive.

3. May I live and die in peace.

4. May I be safe.

5. May I love and appreciate others boundlessly.

For others:

1. May you be safe.

2. May you live long.

3. May you achieve what you want and deserve in life.

4. May you have the power to accept your anger and sadness.

5. May you be healthy and happy always.

[Note: You can do both above as one meditation or separately and you can repeat them] Alternate Language for Loving-Kindness Meditation

1. May you have the strength to overcome all your struggles.

2. May you always be honest and truthful.

3. May you get all the happiness you deserve in life.

4. May you always be surrounded with people who love you and care for you.

Brief Body Scan (3 minutes)
Read this body scan script at the start of your class:

Begin by bringing your attention into your body.

You can close your eyes if that's comfortable for you.

You can notice your body seated wherever you're seated, feeling the weight of your body on the chair or the floor.

Take a few deep breaths.

And as you take a deep breath, bring in more oxygen enlivening the body. And as you exhale, have a sense of relaxing more deeply.

You can notice your feet on the floor, notice the sensations of your feet touching the floor. The weight and pressure, vibration, heat.

You can notice your legs against the chair, pressure, pulsing, heaviness, lightness.

Notice your back against the chair.

Bring your attention into your stomach area. If your stomach is tense or tight, let it soften. Take a breath.

Notice your hands. Are your hands tense or tight. See if you can allow them to soften.

Notice your arms. Feel any sensation in your arms. Let your shoulders be soft.

Notice your neck and throat. Let them be soft. Relax.

Soften your jaw. Let your face and facial muscles be soft.

Then notice your whole-body present. Take one more breath.

Be aware of your whole body as best you can. Take a breath. And then when you're ready, you can open your eyes.

Poetry Readings

Reading a piece of poetry or song lyrics at the beginning of class as a form of meditation and reflection can be a powerful way for students to clear their minds of stressful and negative thoughts. Below are examples of poetry that have themes of finding meaning and purpose in life and our connection to one another through nature and the natural world. Select poems/songs that resonate for you or ask your students to contribute.
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things. Stars by Meg Wheatley In places where air still offers clarity, stars sing a siren song from space in the bright night. Lying on soft earth, carried into sky by longing, humans respond to stars with questions. Why is the Universe so vast? Why are we so small? Call and response through the night. My whole life I have sent these questions into space. And listened for response. Then sky wakens and star song fades. Humans forget mystery and get on with living. But the stars, the stars keep calling. No response. Why is it that we call to stars with science and insignificance? On the next ring night, find the clear air and ask again. Humans, ask again. Who are we? What is our place in mystery? Perhaps you will hear what I have heard, a song of inner radiance. For the stars the stars are calling saying we must turn to one another turn to one another and see finally see the stars everywhere. I Bend by Selena Odom I bend but do not break. I've been lost, but I'm not a loser. I'm a wreck, but I'm not totaled. I'm fractured but not broken. I've failed, but I'm not a failure. I've fallen hard but can get up again. I'm isolated, but still I'm free. I have been destroyed but will rebuild. My heart is broken, but it will mend. See, no matter how close I come to breaking, I just continue to bend. Inner Strength by John Read It's only through mistakes we make We learn where we went wrong. It's only when we're far from home We realize where we belong. It's only when we close our eyes Our dreams seem clear and bright. It's only in our darkest hours We truly see the light. It's only when we lose our way We pray to the stars above. It's only through times of grief We learn the true meaning of love. It's only when all hope seems lost And our weary journey seems so far, When all the world's against you, We learn how strong we really are. All things are sent to try us. We must strive and give our best. I believe God is watching over us, And he guides us in our que​st.
Showing short video clips at the start of your class can help to shift the mood to one that will be more productive for your lessons. Positive emotions will aid in producing creativity, connection, and decrease stress and anxiety. Test the sound prior to class time and cue up the video so that you won't incur ads when you are ready to share your screen.
Playing for Change (Stand By Me) Experiencing Awe Virtually in Yosemite

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Article: 7 AI Tools That Help Teachers Work More Efficiently

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Article: 7 AI Tools That Help Teachers Work More Efficiently

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This list of curated apps by Edutopia can help teachers boost productivity, personalize learning, and create lesson content.

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These apps and websites can help teachers boost their productivity, personalize learning, and create lesson content.

Over the past five years, I've explored ways to integrate AI into my teaching practice-even before ChatGPT and other generative AI became some of the most talked-about topics in education. Every educator needs to learn about AI and how we can leverage this technology to benefit our students and enhance our own work. To best provide for our students, we need to understand how this technology will impact them and us. What better way than to explore new tools via AI in our teaching practice?

Why Educators Need to Understand AI Tools

Our roles as educators have continued to change over the years. With technology comes a bit of hesitancy, especially with something as powerful as AI. In our schools, we have to provide opportunities for students to learn about changing technology because of the impact it may have on their future. Not only can AI tools enhance creativity and productivity, but also they can provide educators with valuable insights into student learning and assist with some of the time-consuming tasks that educators have.

Even with all of the promises of AI, it is important that we take time to talk about artificial intelligence in our classrooms. Not only do we teach the content, but we serve as mentors, facilitators of learning and co-learners with our students, especially as we embrace these emerging powerful technologies. It's important that we help our students learn about the benefits of them and also show how to use these tools properly, responsibly, and ethically.

How AI Can Improve A Teacher's Job

Personalized learning: Educators can provide tailored learning experiences based on AI-driven analytics that provide valuable insights into student performance and learning trends. Using this data, AI can instantly adapt student learning materials. Teachers can then use this information to provide personalized learning experiences, adapting to each student's strengths, weaknesses, and learning pace.

Productivity and efficiency: Greater efficiency comes with AI as well. Educators are responsible for a variety of clerical tasks, such as communicating with students and their families, grading assessments, and providing feedback. Educators may find they spend more time on these clerical tasks rather than on teaching and working directly with students. The right AI tools can help to automate or streamline these tasks, which allows teachers to have additional time with their students.

Creating and supplementing content: Through AI-powered platforms, teachers can curate a range of educational resources. With generative AI in particular, teachers are able to create lessons, activities, assessments, prompts for discussion, and presentations simply by providing a short prompt with keywords.

7 education Tools that work

Here are seven AI-powered tools that will help teachers with personalized learning that enables them to become more efficient and save time that can then be spent with students. I have used each of these for my own personal writing and creating of presentations, and the amount of time they save by generating the slides alone helps me to focus more closely on the content. I also appreciate that the tools offer translation options and a variety of templates and other resources that are commonly used by educators.

The recently released Teaching with AI guide for teachers was created to help educators use ChatGPT in their classroom. The guide comes with several suggested prompts and includes explanations that clarify exactly how ChatGPT works and what its limitations are, and it provides reminders of the importance of verifying information and checking for bias. With ChatGPT 4, which is a paid version, there is greater accuracy and reliability of information than with the original version.

Creating and sharing these resources with our students leads to rich conversations about the benefits of AI and proper use of this technology for creating and learning. There are many more tools available for teachers to explore that can help with each of the key areas that I mentioned. Most important is selecting a tool to start with and reflecting on how it impacted your practice.

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These apps and websites can help teachers boost their productivity, personalize learning, and create lesson content.

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Website: National Education Association (NEA)

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Website: National Education Association (NEA)

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The NEA is a national education advocacy organization. Their website contains resources for advocacy, student success, and more.

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The National Education Association (NEA) is more than 3 million people-educators, students, activists, workers, parents, neighbors, friends-who believe in opportunity for all students and in the power of public education to transform lives and create a more just and inclusive society.

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Advocacy Toolkit: Public Schools First NC

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Advocacy Toolkit: Public Schools First NC

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The Advocacy Toolkit created by Public Schools First NC provides resources for contacting legislators, engaging in social media campaigns, and ideas for spreading the word to support NC's public schools.

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Educator self-advocacy matters and isolation feels real when navigating the self-advocacy process. This collection of resources helps build teachers' capacity and support in their community to help navigate through a solutions-oriented process for the Contract Grievances, Micro-Aggressions or Discriminations, Sexual Harassment, and Addressing Your Board of Education.

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Teacher Self-Advocacy Toolkit - Latinx Education Collaborative

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Educator self-advocacy matters and isolation feels real when navigating the self-advocacy process. We have gathered tools for you to embark on the journey of self-advocacy. We are here to build capacity and support in our community to help each of us navigate through a solutions-oriented process* for the following:

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TED Talk: How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education

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TED Talk: How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education

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Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen. He shares the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools -- including the potential of a personal AI tutor for every student and an AI teaching assistant for every teacher -- and demos some exciting new features for their educational chatbot, Khanmigo.

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How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED

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Instructional Resources: The Advocates for Human Rights

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Instructional Resources: The Advocates for Human Rights

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The Advocates for Human Rights is at the forefront of developing educational tools that help people learn about and apply international human rights standards in their families, schools, workplaces, and communities. This collection of free curricula, lesson plans, educator resources, and other educational materials explore a variety of human rights issues in the United States and around the world.

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The Advocates for Human Rights is at the forefront of developing educational tools that help people learn about and apply international human rights standards in their families, schools, workplaces, and communities. We believe that education is one of the best ways to ensure long-term improvements in respect for human rights everywhere. Our free curricula, lesson plans, educator resources, and other educational materials explore a variety of human rights issues in the United States and around the world.

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The Advocates for Human Rights is at the forefront of developing educational tools that help people learn about and apply international human rights standards in their families, schools, workplaces, and communities. We believe that education is one of the best ways to ensure long-term improvements in respect for human rights everywhere.

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Free Public Policy Courses: Harvard University

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A collection of free online public policy courses offered from Harvard University if you're ready to delve deeper into the subject.

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Browse the latest Public Policy courses from Harvard University.

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Video: 11 of the Best AI Tools for Teachers

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Add AI Tools at any part of your teaching routine. From lesson planning, presenting, and to automating tasks, AI can help! Check out this video to see how you can get started using AI tools in your classroom.

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This article by Education Week describes why it's important to begin developing AI literacy and where to start.

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"The AI genie is out of the bottle," said Cynthia Breazeal, a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It's not just in the realm of computer science and coding. It is affecting all aspects of society. It's the machine under everything. It's critical for all students to have AI literacy if they are going to be using computers, or really, almost any type of technology" in their daily lives.

The question of what makes a person AI literate is evolving. But it involves delving into technical questions like: "What's happening under the hood? How does it work? How does it impact me and the world around us?" said Bryan Cox, the lead computer science specialist at the Georgia education department.

AI literacy is something that every student needs exposure to-not just those who are planning on a career in computer science, experts argue.

"When we all went to school, we learned how the light bulbs work or how the digestive system works or how photosynthesis works," said Hadi Partovi, the CEO of Code.org, which works to expand computer science offerings in K-12 schools. "And you teach those things to everybody, not just the botanists or the electricians or the surgeons. You learn [these things] to have a better understanding of your world. But most people don't know how the internet works, how a smartphone works, how an algorithm works, and they definitely don't know how AI works."

Here's how to begin developing AI literacy, according to experts and educators:

1. Why it's vital to have a basic understanding of how AI works

Grasping the technical aspects of AI-how the technology perceives the world, how it collects and processes data, and how those data can inform decisions and recommendations-can help temper the oftentimes inaccurate perception that AI is an all-knowing, infallible force, experts say.

"We need to demystify how these systems work, how you build these things, at a grade-appropriate kind of level, because there's so much hype and confusion," Breazeal said. "People talk about these things like a conscious ether that surrounds us. [Students] need to understand that we're really talking about [something] people actually make and control and engineer."

To be sure, some students can delve deeper into the inner workings of AI than others, she added. "If you're an AP Computer Science kid, you're going to get a little more in the technical weeds about it," Breazeal said.

But all students must grasp that the decisions that AI makes-whether it's to recommend a particular pair of boots to an Amazon customer or to flag a job applicant as a promising prospect for an employer-aren't driven by the same kind of nuanced and creative reasoning a human can perform.

Instead, it's "really advanced guesswork," Partovi said. "AI right now is based on probability and statistics. It makes errors. It can spread misinformation. It can have bias. Understanding how it actually works underneath is important so that people recognize the weaknesses it has."

And Partovi noted that students still need to learn how to write, even though the writing skills of technologies like ChatGPT are more sophisticated than most people might have imagined. The same idea applies to learning computer coding, he said. "The superpowers of AI are only available to people who know how to write or how to code," Partovi said.

Children in early-elementary school, for instance, could start with a simple lesson in which they identify the human organs-ears, eyes-involved in hearing and seeing and then find their technological counterparts -microphone, camera-on a digital device.

Students also need to understand how biases in the data that's used to train AI can allow the technology to continue to perpetuate discriminatory policies unless humans recognize the problem and do something about it.

2. Give students hands-on opportunities to understand how the technology works

One hands-on lesson for more advanced students: Give them a flawed historical dataset on which to train an AI system, Partovi said. For instance, students could create a program that gives suggested salary ranges for a company's employees.

If that program is informed using data in which women are paid less than men for doing the same job, the technology will probably propose lower salaries for female employees than for male workers. But if women are at salary parity with men in the dataset, the results will be more equitable.

There are other ways of illustrating how human subjectivity can penetrate AI's decisionmaking. For instance, the technology organizes information to draw conclusions, a less clear-cut process than students may initially realize.

To illustrate this, students in a middle school AI course that Georgia is piloting play a game in a physical classroom that initially asks students to decide whether something is edible or not, Cox said. Depending on their decisions, students choose where to stand in the room.

Some of the answers are obvious: A metal stop sign is not edible, for instance.

But there can be disagreement on a word like "chicken," which vegetarians in the class may claim is not edible.

From there, the game begins adding more and more categories and subcategories to the list of options, mimicking how AI algorithms can work.

During the activity, "great conversations erupt," said Cox from the Georgia education department. "And we'll talk to the students about how the computer is making those same determinations" based on the viewpoints of the majority of people it interacts with. And those determinations are often faulty ones.

3. Discuss and analyze ethical questions about the technology

Once students are aware that humans-and not some sentient robot-are behind how these tools analyze and communicate, they can think about them in a broader context.

And that raises all kinds of important and interesting ethical issues. In Georgia's middle school AI course, for instance, students might consider a case of passengers going to sleep in the backseat of a self-driving car while it continues along the road.

Then they'll unpack questions without easy answers: "What are the legal implications of that? Do we need to stop them from doing that? Or is AI to the point where you can actually sleep in the backseat of a car and let it drive itself?" Cox said.

Students consider questions like: Should all states ban facial-recognition software until it becomes more accurate? Or could it be used for some purposes but not others?

They can also discuss data-privacy concerns, including the implications of having devices such as smart speakers-Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple's Siri, among others-in homes. Teachers will pose questions: "How is that impacting you? Is it listening to you all the time? Is it sending information back to Google or Amazon all the time?" Cox said. "That's really one of the biggest things we wanted to be able to do is to help them guard against the unintended consequences of AI."

4. How to interact effectively with AI

Students will need to practice using AI tools to get information, the same way previous generations learned the card-catalog system to navigate the library.

ChatGPT, for instance, is deeply influenced by the prompt a user gives it, said Torrey Trust, an associate professor of learning technology in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

For instance, a student could tell the tool to "'write about the American Revolution.' It's gonna give a very textbook response. And then you could say, 'well, write about 15 women who shaped the American Revolution or draw connections between 15 women today and the American Revolution,'" she said. "The way you prompt the tool completely changes the output and your thinking and learning."

The stakes in the real world, of course, can be a lot higher than a classroom assignment. Getting the prompt right can turn into a "matter of life and death" for a doctor using AI to pinpoint a diagnosis, Trust said.

That's why it's not a good idea to ban ChatGPT or other AI tools, as New York City and some other school districts have done, Partovi said. He noted that while the nation's largest public school district essentially banned the technology except for use in limited circumstances, at least one prominent Manhattan private school is offering instruction in "prompt engineering," an AI skill that could lead to a lucrative job. And that makes AI skill development an equity issue, some experts argue.

"I think a lot of the pushback was, 'well, why do people need to know computational thinking in English/language arts?'" Trust said. "And I think AI has made that more clear."

5. Let students know that AI skills are not just for computer science experts

Students need to be exposed to how AI is being used in the workforce today and how they might use the technology in their future careers, even if they don't go into a computer science field.

"There are all kinds of people involved in the design and deployment of AI-based solutions," Breazeal said. "One of the things we try to do is show [how AI impacts] very diverse roles, diverse industries so that kids can appreciate that 'chances are when I enter the workforce, if I'm not making these AI kinds of things, I'm probably at least using them in a way that helps me get my job done.'"

In fact, if students are going to enter a policy field-or simply vote in elections-they'll also need a grounding in how the technology works, said Leigh Ann DeLyser, the executive director and co-founder of CSforALL, a nonprofit organization, which seeks to help expand computer science education.

What's more, MIT's Breazeal and other experts say that AI will work best when it is designed by people who are part of the community that the tool is aimed at serving. Having people from a variety of backgrounds-racial, socioeconomic, age, gender, profession-can help root out some of the biases embedded in society and, therefore, AI.

"You have to take kids seriously," Breazeal said. "We want to empower them to say, 'I can make a difference right now.' So let's get you the education, the curriculum, the tools, the community so that you can make a difference. And that's super empowering for kids."

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We define social and emotional learning (SEL) as an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

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Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is a student-centered approach that emphasizes:

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Commonly used in school and after-school settings, SEL programming offers strategies and techniques that align with the positive youth development approach.

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In this toolkit, we use the CASEL framework to organize instructional practices and resources that can be incorporated into any youth programming. Resources include manuals, activities, fact sheets, videos, and websites. The Toolkit was originally assembled by the Risk and Thriving in Adolescence Program Work Team, a collaboration of Cornell University, Cornell Cooperative Extension, New York State 4-H Youth Development, and stakeholders. It is updated regularly by ACT for Youth.

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